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    Deuteronomy 29

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    They have seen Egypt’s wonders with their own eyes, yet the LORD has not given them eyes to see; meanwhile, after forty years, their clothes and sandals remain remarkably unworn.

    A covenant in Moabvv. 1–15

    In the land of Moab, Moses gathers all Israel for a covenant added to the one made at Horeb. The people have seen what happened to Pharaoh and Egypt, the trials and wonders, and yet understanding, sight, and hearing have somehow not arrived with the spectacle. Forty years in the wilderness have left their clothes and sandals intact, while Sihon and Og have lost their lands to Israel’s advance. The covenant is made with leaders, families, camp-workers, those present, and those absent—a splendidly wide net—and its purpose is that Israel should be established as the LORD’s people, as promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    The blessing that turns sourvv. 16–29

    Moses recalls Egypt, the nations on the way, and their wooden, stone, silver, and golden idols. The danger is not merely a person wandering off, but a root bearing poisonous fruit: someone who hears the oath and cheerfully blesses himself while walking in the stubbornness of his own heart. The promised peace becomes disaster for both watered land and dry, and the offender is singled out for every curse. Future generations and foreigners will look upon the land’s sulfurous desolation and ask why it happened; the answer is that the covenant was abandoned, other gods were served, and the people were uprooted. The final sentence leaves a small locked cupboard: secret things belong to the LORD, while revealed things belong to the people and their children.

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    1. Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

    2. Deut 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

    3. Deut 29:3You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

    4. Deut 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

    5. Deut 29:5For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

    6. Deut 29:6You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

    7. Deut 29:7When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

    8. Deut 29:8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    9. Deut 29:9So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

    10. Deut 29:10All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

    11. Deut 29:11your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

    12. Deut 29:12so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

    13. Deut 29:13and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    14. Deut 29:14I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

    15. Deut 29:15but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

    16. Deut 29:16For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

    17. Deut 29:17You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

    18. Deut 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

    19. Deut 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

    20. Deut 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

    21. Deut 29:21and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

    22. Deut 29:22Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

    23. Deut 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

    24. Deut 29:24So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

    25. Deut 29:25And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

    26. Deut 29:26They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

    27. Deut 29:27Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

    28. Deut 29:28The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

    29. Deut 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.’’

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    • 29Daniel 2:22He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
    • 29Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
    • 29Romans 11:33–34O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
    • 29Matthew 13:11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
    • 29Job 11:6–7and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
    • 291 Corinthians 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
    • 29Psalms 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
    • 29Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
    • 292 Timothy 3:16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
    • 29Jeremiah 23:18But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
    • 29John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
    • 29Proverbs 3:32for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.
    • 5Deuteronomy 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
    • 91 Kings 2:3And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
    • 18Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
    • 19Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

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